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PHYSICAL RESOURCES

GENERAL

• Student offices with individual desks and personal computer
• Student lab coats and radiation badges
• Medical Physics Program administrative support office

LIBRARIES

• Department of Physics and Astronomy library
• Medical physics library in Program Office and at Cancer Center
• LSU University Libraries

CLINICAL FACILITIES at MARY BIRD PERKINS CANCER CENTER

• Treatment Deliver Systems
• 5 Varian Clinac Radiotherapy accelerators with Millenium MLC (4, 6, 10, 15, 18 MV x-ray and 6, 9, 12, 16, and 20 MeV electron beams)
• BrainLab Novalis stereotactic radiotherapy system
• TomoTherapy Hi-Art System
  
• Patient Data Systems
• GE Lighspeed RT CT Simulator (4D Advantage Windows)
• GE Discovery ST PET-CT
  
• Treatment Planning Systems
• Philips ADAC Pinnacle³ systems
• TomoTherapy planning station
• BrainLab stereotactic system (iPlan)
• K&S Diamond MU Software
• MU Check Software
  
• Brachytherapy Systems
• Varian VariSource HDR system
• MammoSite (breast)
• Varian VariSeed LDR planning system (prostate seeds)
• Sr-90 ophthalmic applicator
  
• Dosimetry Lab
• 3D beam scanning system (Welhoffer/Scanditronix)
• 2D beam scanning systems (Scanditronix, TomoDose, CRS)
• Cylindrical water phantoms
• Film scanning system (Vidar scanner, RIT and TomoScan software)
• Tissue equivalent phantoms (rectangular, cylindrical, and 4D)
• Sun Nuclear (1D (Profiler) and 2D (MapCheck) diode arrays
  
• Patient Support Labs/QA Systems
• Treatment planning room
• Block and mold room
• TLD in-vivo dosimetry system
• IMPAC record and verify system

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